Titahi Bay cenotaph
Credit:
Bruce Comfort, 2011.
US Marines training in the Tararua Ranges
‘This scrub is friendly to Marines, after their experiences in sterner fields overseas’: US Marines rest in scrub at the Army School of Mountain Warfare in the Tararua Ranges, between 1942 and 1944.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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United States Navy tragedy at Paekākāriki
USS American Legion APA-17.
This account of the tragedy at Paekākāriki is by US Navy veteran Frank Zalot Jr.
Paekākāriki: everything went wrong
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Main image: Wikipedia
Text and other images: reproduced with permission from Frank Zalot Jnr and his family. See also, related article on the MassLive.com website (27 June 2011)
Kiwi family hosting Marines
One New Zealand family who opened their home to American servicemen were the Lipshams of Manurewa, shown here hosting a going-away party for some Marines.
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US National Archives
Marines arrive in Wellington
The US 1st Marine Division arrives in Wellington aboard the USS Wakefield on 14 June 1942.
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Photographer: George Silk
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Marine's parade in Wellington
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Photographer: John Pascoe
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Marine unloading supplies
A US Marine removes food supplies from an army truck. The sack is labelled: ‘Kiwi mild cure bacon and hams. Bacon Co. Ltd, Palmerston North’.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Photographer: John Pascoe
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